In ‘Nickel Boys,’ striving for a new way to see

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RaMell Ross; Nickel Boys; Film; Colson Whitehead

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NEW YORK (AP) — RaMell Ross sometimes sends his photography students out on a unique assignment. He tells them to photograph a white person, a Black person, an Asian person and an Indian person. “And,” he adds, “I want you to ask them how they want to be represented.”

Before Ross was a photographer, a professor, a documentarian and, most recently, a feature filmmaker, he was a point guard whose 6-foot-6-inches height allowed him to peer over defenders to see the entire court. Ross’ basketball career was derailed by injuries while at Georgetown University. But he has, ever since been fascinated with the ways we see.

In “Nickel Boys,” one of the most thrillingly innovative American films of the decade, Ross adapts Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. It’s about two young men — Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson) — who’ve been sent to an abusive, mid-century Florida reform school called Nickel Academy.

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By  JAKE COYLE

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https://apnews.com/article/nickel-boys-ramell-ross-interview-74693d9bff8a9fed535003b8b52bb47e

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apnews.com

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